Sentences with phrase «diocesan priest»
A diocesan priest is a Catholic priest who serves in a specific geographical area called a diocese. They are appointed by a bishop to provide spiritual care and leadership to the people in that region. Full definition
Pope Benedict In a question and answer session with 400 diocesan priests in north eastern Italy at the end of his holiday, July 27th 2007.
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I don't think THIS Pope will make a change, but I anticipate that one day there will be permission for diocesan priests to be married... like the other Catholic rites.
While the majority of Dominican House's students were friars, there were also men and women from other religious orders, diocesan priests studying for their licentiate, and a sprinkling of lay students.
After completing my studies at seminary I was ordained in 1967 and offered a post teaching chemistry at the John Fisher School in Surrey, a Catholic secondary school run by diocesan priests.
As celibate diocesan priests, we often live alone.
The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo quietly paid $ 1.5 million in 2016 to a man who alleged a priest sexually abused him when he was a teenager more than three decades ago — the second financial settlement of a lawsuit involving James A. Spielman, a former diocesan priest.
Andrew Sullivan gleefully notes that New York City had only one diocesan priest ordained this year and gleefully blames traditionalism:
There are 887 diocesan priests in Boston and another 715 priests of religious orders.
He leaves the monastery to become a diocesan priest in London and later leaves the priesthood, is taken up by a rich divorcée, marries unhappily, and ends up a Trappist.
Even for the diocesan priest, the concept of material poverty must have substance.
While members of other religious orders, some diocesan priests, and even a few bishops who have cultivated a reputation for being «gay - friendly» have sharply criticized the November instruction, the Jesuits do seem to be in the vanguard of the attack.
Buridan was unusual in that he was a diocesan priest at a time when most academics were either Dominicans or Franciscans, and in that he remained in the Arts faculty as a philosopher when most intellectuals of his caliber saw philosophy as a stage on the way to a doctorate in theology.
This past Saturday, Cardinal Dolan ordained two new priests at St. Patrick's Cathedral — one a diocesan priest and the other a priest for the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.
As a consequence, many a diocesan priest has responded...
The point of law in JGE, a technical legal point, of whether there could be vicarious liability for a diocesan priest, a non-employee, was generally misunderstood in media reports and erroneous reporting was widespread.